Sarah Sayeed is a musician, composer, writer and with over 15 years of experience working
collaboratively with a range of artists.

As a musical artist, her practice focuses around contemporary works that influence Western
classical choral works, orchestral ideas, Indian and Bengali classical vocals & instrumental
works and Western contemporary jazz and urban music. Sarah plays instruments tanpura
and shruti, and is the lead vocalist in international duet Myth of Her with violin and electronic
artist Anne Eltard (Copenhagen, Denmark).

Sarah is currently training in classical vocals with leading Classical Indian Music maestro
Swati Natekar.

Sarah’s credits include Composer and Sound Designer for Santi and Naz (The Thelmas),
Composer and Sound Designer for We Are Shadows (Tamasha), Principle Musician in Richard
2nd at Shakespeare’s Globe (2019), Composer & Musical Director for the Royal Shakespeare
Company adaption of Molière’s Tartuffe (2019/2018) and Sound Designer for Contact
Theatre’s production on Suffragette Movement, She Bangs The Drums (2018).

In 2021 and 2022 Sarah designed Ten Nights for Bush Theatre and composed the music for Love Across
the Ages, both written by Shahid Iqbal Khan and was sound designer on The Merchant of
Venice by Shakespeare in Italy, performed at the Playground Theatre and directed by Bill
Alexander.

Artistic commissions include Sound and Music’s Portfolio composers programme and
Curating Sound Travels with the British Music collection/Google Curate.